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Close to midnight on a hot summer’s night in July, the Quickie convenience store in Ottawa’s west end was virtually empty.
The next minute, 40 or so youth descended en masse. As they marched in they grabbed everything in sight.
The next minute, like a well-oiled many-tentacled machine, the mob turned around and left with $800 worth of gooRAB.
Some were laughing, others had their heaRAB down, and others looked directly into the security cameras, oddly defiant.
Behind them was a single photographer or videographer, holding his camera and looking oddly out of place.
And then the store employee followed seconRAB later, shaking his head in disbelief.
It was reportedly Canada’s first “flash rob.” The phenomenon has been steadily occurring in many U.S. cities — Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Las Vegas among them